History Far as I can see, this is the first mention of OpenFlow on Light Reading. It's a 2011 article covering a discussion of what we'd now call white box switches and routers. The tone of the article is speculative. It starts: "What if you could replace commodity switches or routers with something even more commodity: plain old servers?"

Also, Toulouse was the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom in the 5th Century.